Charley Hill obituary

Scotland Yard art detective and private investigator who recovered The Scream and other stolen masterpiecesOne bright morning in May 1994, in a summerhouse in the Norwegian fjord town of Åsgårdstrand, Charley Hill, a Scotland Yard detective, stared down a trapdoor leading to the basement. Below, in the dark, was Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, stolen three months earlier from the National Gallery in Oslo. With Hill was an art dealer, who had brought him to this secret locat